Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim (born 1973) is an American author, translator, columnist, critic of Islam and a former librarian. His focus is Arabic history and language, and current events. He is the author of four books, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (Post Hill Press, 2022), Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (Da Capo, 2018), Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (Regnery, 2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007).

Early life and education

Ibrahim was born in the United States to Coptic immigrants from Egypt. He is fluent in Arabic and English. Ibrahim studied at California State University, Fresno, where he wrote a master's thesis under Victor Davis Hanson on an early military encounter between Islam and Byzantium based on medieval Arabic and Greek texts. Ibrahim also took graduate courses at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and studied toward a PhD in medieval Islamic history at Catholic University.

Career

Ibrahim was previously an Arabic language specialist for the Near East section of the Library of Congress, and the associate director of the Middle East Forum. He is currently a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, and the Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, an American conservative think tank.

Ibrahim is the editor and translator of The Al Qaeda Reader, which he published after discovering a hitherto unknown Arabic al-Qaeda document; Ibrahim believes the document "proves once and for all that, despite the propaganda of al-Qaeda and its sympathizers, radical Islam's war with the West is not finite and limited to political grievances — real or imagined — but is existential, transcending time and space and deeply rooted in faith".

Ibrahim has appeared on and been interviewed by Al Jazeera, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, and Reuters, and "regularly lectures, briefs governmental agencies, provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits, and testifies before Congress."

Reception

An article Ibrahim wrote on taqiyya, which was commissioned and published by Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst on September 26, 2008, was later characterized by another author in Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst as being "well-researched, factual in places but ... ultimately misleading". Ibrahim responded to this charge in his rebuttal, "Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics.

Publications

• Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam. Post Hill Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1642938203.
• Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. Da Capo Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0306825552.
• Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians. Regnery. 2013. ISBN 978-1621570257.
• The Al Qaeda Reader (editor and translator). New York: Doubleday. 2007. ISBN 978-0-385-51655-6. OCLC 846115024.
• "How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War", Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2010, pp. 3–13
• "Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?", Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2009, pp. 3–12
• "An Analysis of Al-Qa'ida's Worldview: Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation", Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3, September 2008
• "Studying the Islamic Way of War", National Review Online, September 11, 2008
• "Islam's Doctrines of Deception", Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst, The Middle East Forum, September 26, 2008
• "Jesus and Mohammad, Version 2.0", National Review Online, September 10, 2007
• "The Two Faces of Al Qaeda", The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 54, Issue 4, p. B3, September 21, 2007
• "Islam gets concessions; Infidels get conquered", Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2006

External links

• "Raymond Ibrahim website".